Tablet.



No. 703,260. Patented June 24, I902.

A. L. HOLTDN.

TABLET.

(Application flled Apr. 1, 1902.)

(N0 Model.)

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ABNER LINWOOD I-IOLTON, OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.

TABLET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 703,260, dated June 24,1902.

Application filed April 1, 1902- Serial No. 101,010. (No model.)

To a whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ABNER LINWOOD I-IOL- TON, of Norfolk, in the countyof Norfolk and State of Virginia, have invented a new and tablets, andparticularly in that class of such tablets comprising a number of looseleaves or sheets and means for holding them to gether, such as arecommonly used by stenographers and others for note-books; and theinvention consists in certain novel constructions and combinationsofparts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a tablet embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 is a side view of same, and Fig. 3 is a perspectiveview of the binder or holder.

The sheets or leaves A may be ruled to suit stenographic use orotherwise, as desired, and are provided near one end with the openingsat to receive the bows of the holder.

The holder B comprises the end bows O and the connecting-rod D,Whichextends between and connects the opposite bows, as will be understoodfrom Figs. 1 and 3. As shown, the holder is preferably formed of alength of wire of suitable weight extending on a straight line betweenthe bows to form the connecting-rod and the bows at the ends of saidrod. The bows are alike, and each includes a fixed base-section 1, bentfrom the rod D at a right angle thereto, the arch 2,curving back overthe section 1 and extending to the opposite side of the rod D a distanceabout equal the length of the section 1, and the base-section3,approximately in alinement with the section 1 and whose extremity at Iis free and lies normally adjacent to the connecting-rod D. The sections1 and 3 constitute a flat base for the bow.

In use the sheets when written upon are thrown over the arches of thebows to the opposite side, and when all the sheets have been writtenupon on one side the tablet can be reversed and the opposite sides ofthe leaves be written upon, as will be readily understood from Fig. 1 bythose familiar with the use of this class of tablets.

It will be noticed, especially from Fig. 3

that the base-sections 1 depart from the main cross-bar I) at arightangle thereto, and the juncture of the cross-bar D and the basesections1, as clearly shown in the said Fig. 3. By this construction I am ableto secure a bow or arch 2 of ample length of a base double the length ofthe sections 1 and also seen re the location of the cross-bar Dapproximately concentric with the bows or arches 2, as will beunderstood from the drawings.

A special and important advantage results from locating theconnecting-rod D of my device midway between the ends of the bows andconcentric therewith, as thereby I am able to make the fixedbase-section 1 comparatively short, thus giving a more rigid supportforthe curved portion of the bow and also arrange the said connecting-barso it will not underlie the leaves of the tablet in either adjustment ofthe said leaves, so that the leaves may lie flat upon the table or othersupport entirely to their upper edges in both adjustments.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The holder for tablets substantially as herein described and shown,having a cross or connecting rod and provided at the ends thereof withprojecting base-sections at approximately right angles to theconnectingrod, the bows or arches extending from the outer ends of thebase-sections over the same and thence to a point beyond theconnectingrod approximately equal to the length of the saidbase-sections and provided at such ends of the bows or arches withreturned base-sections approximately equal to the length of thebase-sectionsprojecting from the ends of the connecting-rod, allsubstantially as set forth, whereby the connecting-rod is locatedapproximately concentric with the bows or arches and midway between theends of the base of said bows or arches, as and for the purposes setforth.

ABNER LINWOOD HOLTON.

Witnesses W. D. SOUTHALL, B. D. THOMAS.

